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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Overview of this book

Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of integrated capabilities that extend IIS and the Windows Server platform making it easier to build, scale and manage composite applications today. Windows Server AppFabric delivers the first wave of innovation within an exciting new middleware paradigm which brings performance, scalability and enhanced management capabilities to the platform for applications built on the .NET Framework using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' shows you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric leveraging the capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. Packed with over 60 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' starts by showing you how to set up your development environment to start using Windows Server AppFabric quickly. The book then moves on to provide comprehensive coverage of the most important capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, diving right in to hands-on topics such as deploying WCF and WF applications to Windows Server AppFabric and leveraging the distributed caching, scalable hosting, persistence, monitoring and management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer, with recipes covering a full spectrum of complexity from simple to intermediate and advanced.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Hosting basic workflow services


Windows Server AppFabric provides a premier hosting environment for hosting your WCF and WF services. Built on IIS 7.x and Windows Process Activation Services (WAS), your WCF and WF Services will instantly benefit from the hosting, monitoring, and caching capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, including a number of features that were specifically designed to allow you to get the most out of hosting WF Services.

WF Services combine the declarative, model-oriented approach to designing the logic flow of your services with the robust messaging capabilities of WCF. Together, WCF and WF provide some pretty powerful capabilities for designing and hosting long-running services that maximize resources while providing your users with a very responsive user experience.

There are extensive configuration options available for both WCF and WF. When working with WCF or WF services, you have the option of configuring your service either imperatively, in code...